Neighbors taking tools

[173abn]

I'm with JD,I'd rather buy my own than borrow.I can't remember the last time I borrowed something.I've got so many tools I spend more time looking than doing. russ

 

[JDgreen]

I'm with JD,I'd rather buy my own than borrow.I can't remember the last time I borrowed something.I've got so many tools I spend more time looking than doing. russ

Russ, I got so many tools I spend more time caring for them and keeping them put away than I do using them....:laughing:

 

[RobertBrown]

Thanks, everyone for your advice. I asked him to come over for coffee tomorrow. He watches our home for us when we go on vacation and has helped me work on things that is how he knows where the tools are. I will be moving things and asking him for all of them back. I am sure he isn't selling them and think he probably plans on returning them when he takes them.

Your much smarter and more patient then myself. I would walk right in his living room unplug and take his TV while he was watching it, all the time explaining how I was taking advantage of the new arrangement we have here in the neighborhood.
On the other hand.... does this guy think he is entitled to use your tools when your not around? Are you one to say "hey whatever and when ever you need something I've got it".
You mentioned stealing...my definition of stealing is taking anything without permission. If my neighbor sets foot in my garage without my permission we have a big big problem (unless it's a major emergency or on fire), but I'm not you and your neighbor is not my neighbor.
I think you know what needs to be done, and I think you need to keep the camera your little secret. This way you may find out just what kind of friend you have.
He's the one that brought his credibility into question:wink:

 

[NickNack]

Will you still let this neighbor watch your home for you while you are out of your house? If he steals from you when you are there, what does he do when you are not there?

 

[JDgreen]

Your much smarter and more patient then myself. I would walk right in his living room unplug and take his TV while he was watching it, all the time explaining how I was taking advantage of the new arrangement we have here in the neighborhood.
On the other hand.... does this guy think he is entitled to use your tools when your not around? Are you one to say "hey whatever and when ever you need something I've got it".
You mentioned stealing...my definition of stealing is taking anything without permission. If my neighbor sets foot in my garage without my permission we have a big big problem (unless it's a major emergency or on fire), but I'm not you and your neighbor is not my neighbor.
I think you know what needs to be done, and I think you need to keep the camera your little secret. This way you may find out just what kind of friend you have.
He's the one that brought his credibility into question:wink:

Well stated...VERY WELL STATED. My next door neighbor is a cop, which may be the reason he asks before borrowing anything, he knows how the law views things....:laughing: But for what it's worth if I am not there he has full unlimited permission to borrow anything he wants with three exemptions:

First, the wife, second, the cats, third, my tractor....:laughing:

 

[SeniorCitizen]

There is a way to be fairly certain loaned tools are returned by those people that tend to forget what they borrowed and when.

The system is known as a deposit. But for it to work it must be set up correctly. Below are some examples. With this system the borrowed tool will probably be returned within minutes after the job is completed.

screwdriver - $20.00 deposit
junky used cordless drill - $80.00
newer cordless drill - $150.00
extension cord - $80.00

 

[greengrass]

It is awful that your neighbors would do such a thing but I am in a similar boat. We are actually going to install a camera system to find out who is trying to key our cards. Our yard is not fenced in so we think its a few of the neighbor kids but we live in a good area and are still puzzled by the reasons someone would do this.

 

[KennyV]

We are actually going to install a camera system to find out who is trying to key our cards. Our yard is not fenced in so we think its a few of the neighbor kids but we live in a good area and are still puzzled by the reasons someone would do this.

A decent camera system with digital recorder is very affordable and can be used for various applications, so consider it a very handy tool that can easily last 10 to 20 years or more... You can get a day, wk or a month worth of recording before it records over the oldest stuff... whatever interval will suit your review time frame... cameras systems that work very well in low light are also cheap, old digital cameras will even to the job, and they are hard to give away.... :smile:KennyV

 

[jd335]

man i know how hard it is to acuse someone of stelling from you i was in the service station business and i was losing tools and who knows what else only problem it was my farther in law stelling from me i told my wife i was gonna ask him not to come back in the shop and so she went to the house after i told her some of the things he had taken and she brought them back to me he never showed back up for all the years i was there embrased i guess she never did tell me what she said to him and i didn't ask i was just glad she found the tools and didnot think i was acussing her farther of something he wasn't doing.

 

[KennyV]

There is nothing like video ... Ive been to court many times over what I have captured on video... It's very persuasive and imposable to defend against a video clip.. None of my video's were over theft... but it would work exactly the same if that's the route you chose to take...
There is nothing quite like first hand reproducible visual evidence... :smile:KennyV